Hamburg
Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg Freie und Hansestadt Hamburg Friee un Hansestadt Hamborg | |
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| Country | Germany |
| Government | |
| • First Mayor | Peter Tschentscher (SPD) |
| • Governing parties | SPD / The Greens |
| • Votes in Bundesrat | 3 (of 69) |
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| Population (30 September 2016)[1] | |
| • City | 1,822,445 |
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| • Metro | 5,107,429 |
| Time zone | UTC+1 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+2 (CEST) |
| Postal code(s) | 20001–21149, 22001–22769 |
| Area code(s) | 040 |
| ISO 3166 code | DE-HH |
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| GDP/ Nominal | € 111/$130 billion (2016) [2] |
| GDP per capita | € 62,000/$72,900[3] (2015) |
| NUTS Region | DE6 |
| Website | hamburg.de |
Hamburg or in full Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg (Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Language/data/iana scripts' not found.), is a city in the north of Germany on the banks of the River Elbe, 18 km away from the North Sea.
With a population of about 1.73 million (1730000) it is the biggest German city after Berlin and the sixth largest city of the European Union. The religion is about 37% Protestant, 10% Catholic, 8% Muslim, 38% agnostic, 2% Pagan.
Since it was an important member of the Hanseatic League, the city's official name still includes Hansestadt (Hanseatic city). Other German cities that do the same today are: Lübeck, Rostock, Wismar, Stralsund, Bremen, Greifswald and Demmin. The membership in this trade alliance has influenced the architecture of the city to a great extent. It has also left some marks in the region around the city. Strategic bombing in World War II devastated the city.
In 2017 a consulting company ranked it 17th for best place to live in the world.[4]
The area of Hamburg is 755.16 km2 (291.6 sq mi).[5] It has an oceanic climate (Cfb in the Koeppen climate classification).
Economy
Hamburg's harbour is, by shipments, the second largest harbour in Europe (after Rotterdam) and among the ten largest in the world. It is a very important gate to the countries along the Baltic Sea and Eastern Europe.
There are about 120,000 businesses in Hamburg.[6] The company Airbus has an assembly plant for large civil aircraft in Hamburg. 30,000 people are employed in Hamburg's aircraft industries. There are only two other locations worldwide in this scale, Seattle in the United States and Toulouse in France.
About half of Germany's nationwide newspapers and magazines are made in Hamburg. Germany's most-viewed television news Tagesschau is broadcast from Hamburg.
Hamburg's red-light district (in Sankt Pauli) is the largest in Europe.
Sister cities
- 23x15px Russia, Saint Petersburg, since 1957
- 23x15px France, Marseille, since 1958
- 23x15px China, Shanghai, since 1986
- 23x15px Germany, Dresden, since 1987
- 23x15px Nicaragua, León, since 1989
- 23x15px Japan, Ōsaka, since 1989
- 23x15px Czech Republic, Prague, since 1990
- 23x15px United States, Chicago, since 1994
Related pages
References
| 40x40px | Wikimedia Commons has media related to Hamburg. |
| 40x40px | Wikivoyage has a travel guide about: Hamburg |
- ↑ "State population". Portal of the Land Statistics Office Hamburg. Retrieved 15 November 2017.
- ↑ "Bruttoinlandsprodukt – in jeweiligen Preisen – in Deutschland 1991 bis 2016 nach Bundesländern (WZ 2008) – VGR dL". www.vgrdl.de.
- ↑ http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/documents/2995521/7192292/1-26022016-AP-EN.pdf/602b34e8-abba-439e-b555-4c3cb1dbbe6e
- ↑ "Vienna tops Mercer's 19th Quality of Living ranking". Retrieved 2018-05-16.
- ↑ "Internetagentur Hamburg". www.internetagentur-seo-hamburg.de.
- ↑ http://hamburg-economy.de/res/downloads/wirtschaftsstandort_hh.pdf
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